POLICE RESIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS

BRIAN R. JOHNSON, GREG L. WARCHOL, AND VIC W. BUMPHUS

DOI: 10.2190/967F-1X6P-N41A-DEB5

Abstract

This research examined the prevalence of residential requirements and police officers attitudes toward residential requirements in the state of Michigan. Through the collection of qualitative information, a survey was distributed to a medium-sized police agency in southwestern Michigan to record officers' concerns and attitudes toward their agency's residential requirement. Later, a statewide phone survey was also conducted. The research found the majority of police agencies sampled had residential requirements. Likewise, the data revealed opposition to residential requirements for a variety of personal issues. Traditional reasons posited by police administrators for the existence of a residential requirement were also refuted through the attitudinal questionnaire. This raises the question of the impact of these policies in the collective bargaining process and contemporary human resource management.

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